(6th millenniumBC – 5th millenniumBC – 4thmillenniumBC &ndash; other millennia) Events 4713 BC &ndash; The epoch (origin) of the Julian Period described by Joseph Justus Scaliger occurred on January 1, the astronomical Julian day number zero.

(4thmillenniumBC – 3rd millenniumBC – 2nd millenniumBC &ndash; other millennia) Events Syria: Foundation of the city of Mari (29th centuryBC) Iraq: Creation of the Kingdom of Elam Germination of the Bristlecone pine tree Methuselah about 2700 BC, the oldest known tree still living now Dynasty of Lagash in...

The Vinča culture was an early culture of Europe (between the 6th and the 3rd millenniumBC), stretching around the course of Danube in Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia, although traces of it can be found all around the Balkans.

Stanford "3000 BC" notes 3500 BC: Global; Holocene delta development worldwide The sequence of Holocene delta development worldwide is indicated as beginning at 6000 BC; by 3000 BC a transgressive sequence of deltaic deposits had developed as shown on the figure.

The 3199 BC value is associated with an acidity peak in Camp Century ice cores dated at 3150 BC demonstrating unquestionably that adverse weather conditions, probably due either to volcanic eruption or meteoric impact, occurred at this time.

Stanford "3000 BC" notes 3090 BC: Egypt; Egypt, Nile Earliest recorded flood recorded on a "Nilometer" in 3090 BC during the riegn of King Djer of the Early Dynastic period.

Based on studies by glaciologist Lonnie Thompson (professor at Ohio State University and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center) [1] (http://www.news-about-space.org/story/2409.html) a number of indicators shows there were a global change in climate 5,200 years ago:

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2217 - 2193 BC -- Nomadic invasions of Akkad.

2138 BC -- Babylon: A solar eclipse on 9 May and a lunar eclipse on 24 May occurred and are believed to be the double eclipse that took place 23 years after the ascension of king Shulgi of Babylon by those holding to the long chronology.

Sumerian city of Ur in Mesopotamia (40th_century_BC); Sumerian hegemony in Mesopotamia, with the invention of writing, base-60 mathematics, astronomy and astrology, civil law, complex hydrology, the sailboat, the wheel, and the potter's_wheel, 4000–2000 BCE.

The songs were taken over by the Hellenes in the 2nd millenniumbc, and although no fragments are known to exist, the subsequent art of the ballad singers who celebrated the actions of heroes must have developed from them.

The elegiac couplet, or elegiac distich, became popular throughout Greece during the 7th centurybc and was used for compositions of all kinds, ranging from dirges to love songs.

In the 6th centurybc the poet Anacreon's playful lyrics on wine and love were written in various lyric metres; subsequent verse similar in tone and theme was known as anacreontic.

(5th millennium BC(6th millenniumBC – 5th millenniumBC – 4thmillenniumBC8211; other millennia) Events 4713 BC8211; The epoch (origin) of the Julian Period described by Joseph Justus Scaliger occurred on January 1, the astronomical Julian day number zero.

4500 BC – Civilization of Susa and Kish in Mesopotamia 4004 BC – The universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23 according to the chronology of Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh.

Kalki, the 10th and final avatar of Vishnu, is expected to appear at this time, riding a white horse and wielding a flaming sword with which to strike down the wicked....

By the first quarter of the 5th millenniumBC in al-Fayyum, there existed villages that kept sheep, goats, and swine and cultivated wheat (emmer), barley, cotton, and flax, which was woven into linen.

4000 BC: Domestication of the Horse "The land in Sumer] was plowed by teams of oxen pulling light unwheeled plows, and the grain was harvested with sickles in the spring.

The horse, which was probably domesticated about 4000 BC by pastoral nomads in the Ukraine, did not in fact displace the onager as a draft animal in Mesopotamia until about 2000 BC." Encyclopedia Britannica: agriculture, history of 4000 BC: Global; Holocene delta development worldwide Holocene delta development worldwide transgressive sequence of deltaic deposits #160.

From the beginning of the 4thmillenniumBC, the individuality of the early village cultures began to be replaced by a more homogenous style of existence.

By the middle of the 3rd millennium, a uniform culture had developed at settlements spread across nearly 500,000 square miles, including parts of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Baluchistan, Sind and the Makran coast.

By about 1700 BC, the Harappan culture was on the decline, due to repeated flooding of towns located on the river banks and due to ecological changes which forced agriculture to yield to the spreading desert.

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Mesopotamia, in the 4th-3rd millenniumBC, developed a type of mosaic composed of slender cones of baked clay with some base ends painted red, fl, and white.

The polychrome pebble mosaics of about 300 BC at Pella in Macedonia are excellent examples of the use of subtle variations of color in water-polished stones to create beautiful figural compositions, often of light figures against a dark background, with outlines in either lead or ceramic strips.

Polychrome scenes of the late 2nd and early 1st centuriesBC are among the earliest mosaics at Pompeii.

During the Bronze Age, arsenic was often included in the bronze (mostly as an impurity), which made the alloy harder still.

The earliest copper alloys date to the late 4thmillenniumBC, and are found in the context of the Maikop culture.

Bronze was still used to a considerable extent during the Iron Age, but for many purposes the weaker iron was sufficiently strong to serve in its place.

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Horses too were becoming familiar to Mesopotamian peoples from equally early in the second millenniumBC, and the linguistic and lexical evidence adduced for Indo-European influences is regarded as too late to be relevant to origins.

This was in the course of an enquiry into the origins of chariotry in Shang China (and incidentally, Vedic India) in the late second millenniumBC, and it was suggested that these might better be found in the Timber Grave and Andronovo continuum rather than in the metropolitan ancient Near East itself.